Carol Murray
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And the wind picks that up and the drag from the wind opens the parachute.
I don't remember that.
I just remembered that I was falling and that something was wrong.
Like it just didn't feel right.
The wind was everywhere.
And I remember feeling panicked.
And I wore one way radio so I could hear my instructor on the ground, but they couldn't hear me.
And the sign for pull your reserve chute is look, thumb, pull.
So you look to your left and your shoulder and you grab the strap with your thumb and you pull it.
So he said, look, thumb, pull.
And I was pulling it and nothing happened.
And he was screaming louder, look, thumb, pull, look, thumb, pull.
And I have a video of the accident.
I think it was the same 12-year-old boy that was packing parachute that used my sister's camcorder to video it.
And he was screaming it more on the ground.
So when I watch it, I remember hearing that from above.
And I just remember feeling my body relaxing and fainting.
And I thought to myself, oh, God, I'm going to die.
But the reports have people reporting they could hear me screaming to the ground.
I landed in an elderly woman's front yard about a kilometer up from the base of the skydiving school or maybe half a kilometer.